Interwoven, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., announced an agreement by which Interwoven becomes a Content Infrastructure partner to augment the Corporate Yahoo! enterprise information portal solution. Corporate Yahoo! enables companies to integrate proprietary corporate content and applications behind existing firewalls with Yahoo!’s personalized Internet content and services. Interwoven’s Content Infrastructure is used to capture, manage, leverage and distribute content in a collaborative fashion, both within and beyond the four walls of the enterprise. Together, the joint solution provides ease-of-use for portal configuration and content contribution. The integration will be based on Interwoven’s recently announced PortalReady SDK (software development kit) that includes a function-rich, customer-extensible framework designed to grow with evolving portal requirements. www.interwoven.com/portal
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This category is focused on enterprise / workplace collaboration tools and strategies, including office suites, intranets, knowledge management, and enterprise adoption of social networking tools and approaches.
eGrail, Inc. announced eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0. eGrail is offering a 90-day customer satisfaction guarantee, designed to ensure a solid, long-term relationship between eGrail and its customers. eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0 enables multiple business users to easily update and change a global corporate Web site in minutes. eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0 includes a major enhancement — Web- based, customizable workflow — that simplifies the processes for creating, assigning, monitoring and completing content-creation tasks. The workflow module minimizes the risk of site error and ensures appropriate review before updates or modifications are published, both critical when maintaining the integrity of a Web site. Additional features include a J2EE Software Developers Kit that enables complete interoperability with application servers and external applications for eCommerce, portals, calendaring, personalization and advanced search functionality; an object wizard for creating and defining objects; and an import/export utility that enables the transport of site elements using an XML file format. www.egrail.com
SAP Portals, Inc. and Baan have announced a strategic alliance that will enable Baan customers to quickly and easily integrate disparate software applications into the iBaan Portal. Under the terms of the alliance, technology from SAP Portals will be embedded within the iBaan Portal solution, and Baan will participate in the advisory board of SAP Portals. This alliance with Baan follows SAP Portals’ recently announced strategy to develop an open partnership model that fosters a broad technology and content ecosystem. The new iBaan suite of Internet-enabled collaboration solutions addresses manufacturers’ growing demands for tighter integration and full visibility across their entire supply chains. The suite combines Baan technology with new developments that enable customers to take steps toward the integration of systems and processes, provide end users with personalized and easy-to-use information, and empower businesses to collaborate with their customers and suppliers over the Internet. The SAP Portals portfolio includes enterprise portals, business intelligence applications, unique content offerings and professional services. Enterprise portal offerings are composed of SAP Portals’ Enterprise Information Portal, SAP Portals’ Enterprise Collaboration Portal and SAP Portals’ Enterprise Unification Portal. www.baan.com, www.sapportals.com
Interwoven, Inc. announced the PortalReady SDK (Software Development Kit), a standards-based interface for rapidly integrating portal software with Interwoven’s Content Infrastructure. Five “early adopter” portal vendors are announcing the integration of their portal infrastructure in parallel with the development of the Interwoven PortalReady SDK. Epicentric, IBM, iPlanet, Plumtree, and TIBCO will each be shipping portal products integrated with Interwoven’s Content Infrastructure products in Q3. Art Technology Group (ATG), BEA Systems, Bowstreet, DataChannel, PeopleSoft, and Sybase have also indicated their intent to integrate their portal product lines with Interwoven Content Infrastructure through its PortalReady SDK. The PortalReady SDK is built on SOAP and XML and provides support to both .NET and J2EE for all portal environments. In addition, the PortalReady SDK includes a function-rich, customer-extensible framework designed to grow with evolving portal requirements and support enhancements to Content Infrastructure. Interwoven will also be providing certification support to portal partners employing the PortalReady SDK for integration, including certification criteria and reporting. The PortalReady SDK will be available in Q3. www.interwoven.com/portal
IBM today announced an agreement with SAP Portals, Inc., to enable customers to integrate enterprise business applications from SAP, PeopleSoft Inc., Baan, Oracle Financials and others into portal solutions deployed using IBM’s WebSphere Portal Server. As part of the agreement, IBM will have the ability to resell and distribute SAP Portals iViews, which provide users access to the key enterprise business applications. The two companies also said that under the terms of the agreement, SAP Portals will provide a Java 2 Enterprise Edition version of its iViewServer that IBM will license and include in the IBM WebSphere Portal Server. The WebSphere Portal Server enhancements and the SAP Portals iViews that support integrated access to business applications from SAP, Baan, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials and others will be available in the fourth quarter of 2001. www.ibm.com/software/webservers/portal, www.sapportals.com
IONA announced a global alliance with DataChannel Inc. under which the two companies have agreed to engage in joint sales activities. Under the terms of the agreement, DataChannel will integrate its product, DataChannel Server, (DCS) with IONA’s iPortal Application Server 3.0. DataChannel’s enterprise portal platform supports iPortal Application Server 3.0 today, and will deploy on iPortal Application Server in future releases. In addition, IONA announced that it has signed a reselling relationship with DataChannel. As part of the alliance, IONA will resell DataChannel technology, extending the reach of its e-Business Platform for Total Business integration. www.datachannel.com, www.iona.com
BEA Systems, Inc. announced BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, based on BEA WebLogic Server. BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 will incorporate BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, which currently ships with BEA Portal Framework. In addition, BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 will include new portal technologies, user tools and partner applications to more easily and cost-effectively deploy e-business portals for employees, customers, partners and suppliers. BEA WebLogic Portal will include four critical technologies: personalization, portal framework, presentation, and integration. BEA WebLogic Portal will be delivered as an integrated solution with tools for business users to personalize users’ online experiences, and for IT organizations to enable enterprise-wide standards, security and administration. BEA WebLogic Portal can rapidly scale to thousands of concurrent users and transactions, and can be adapted to manage multiple portal initiatives. BEA also announced the Star Portal Solution, an expansion of BEA’s Star Partner Program. Partners include: Autonomy, ScreamingMedia, Documentum, Interwoven, Vignette, Caput.com, Compoze Software, Netegrity, and Securant. Autonomy, Documentum, Interwoven and ScreamingMedia will be bundled in the partner pack that ships with WebLogic Personalization Server 3.5 and will ship with WebLogic Portal 4.0. WebLogic Portal 4.0 will be available in fall 2001. Businesses can begin deploying portals now using BEA Portal Framework, included in current versions of BEA WebLogic Personalization Server and BEA WebLogic Commerce Server. All BEA WebLogic products can be downloaded from www.bea.com
Open Market, Inc. announced the availability of an integration between its Content Server Enterprise Edition (CSEE) software and the iPlanet Portal Server 3.0 from iPlanet E-Commerce Solution. This integration provides interoperability between the iPlanet Portal Server and Open Market’s CSEE software through a plug-in. With this integration, iPlanet Portal Server “channels” are used to access Open Market’s applications and the content they manage. For example, one channel can allow geographically dispersed content contributors to access Open Market’s applications with a single sign-on. Another channel allows iPlanet Portal Server users to access news and company information that is targeted to their role in the organization. Open Market and iPlanet worked in conjunction with Migration Software Systems to allow the two environments to operate as a single solution. The integrated solution is available today from both Open Market and iPlanet. The two organizations are finalizing agreements regarding continued development and support of the integrated plug-in. www.openmarket.com
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